Problem loading an Image

[onesixtyfourth]

Firstly I am sorry if this is the incorrect place for this but it seems right to me. I am trying to load an image into my program but can't seem to be able to do it. I have searched the Internet and this forum and keep coming up with the same few approaches and have tried them all. I am using Eclipse and have a file structure as follows:

src
|
editor
| - EditorPanel.java
res
| - blocks1.bmp

So I have a package inside the src dir and a res dir where I am currently storing the image. I have tried the following code:

package editor;



import java.awt.Dimension;

import java.awt.Graphics;

import java.awt.Image;

import java.awt.Toolkit;

import java.net.URL;



import javax.swing.ImageIcon;

import javax.swing.JPanel;



public class EditorPanel extends JPanel

{

    private static final int DEFAULT_WIDTH = 800;

    private static final int DEFAULT_HEIGHT = 600;



    private ImageIcon icon;

    private Image image;



    public EditorPanel()

    {

	setPreferredSize(new Dimension(DEFAULT_WIDTH, DEFAULT_HEIGHT));



	 URL imgURL = EditorPanel.class.getResource("../../res/block1.bmp");

	 image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(imgURL);

    }



    public void paintComponent(Graphics g)

    {

	super.paintComponent(g);

	// g.drawImage(icon.getImage(), 20, 20, null);

	g.drawImage(image, 20, 20, null);

	g.drawString("Can You See Me", 10, 50);
er different methods of loading the image but each time I get a NullPointerException at the point of drawing the image in paintComponent. I have also tried different variations of the path string but to no avail. Does any here know what I am doing wrong?
    }

}// end EditorPanel

I have tried a few oth

[onesixtyfourth]

I have fixed this now and the was problem that my res folder was outside of the src folder. I have moved it and all is ok now.